Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Nothing at all to do with the tariffs, I’m sure.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
Intel Corp. is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20% of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
Nothing at all to do with the tariffs, I’m sure.
They’ve been struggling a lot recently, but this stuff with the tarrifs cantve made it any easier for them.
Honestly, Intel has been up shit creek for a while now. No one big wants to use Intel’s fabs because they’re afraid that Intel’s design team will copy their homework.
Vertical integration has fucked Intel. TSMC’s fabs get all the important contracts from Nvidia, Apple, etc. And the massive client volume allows them to accelerate the evolution of their fab tech.
Intel needs to break their chip design business and fab into two separate businesses, otherwise it’s a continuation of the death march.
AMD did that, but Global Foundry doesn’t do that well, at least compared to TSMC. Also Intel was going strong with their fabs until AMD started building better chips architecture wise. I’m just saying that splitting might not work.
No one wants to use their fabs because they’re bad!
(Not awful, but not cutting edge really any more)
A lot of their chips are fab’d in the US and Israel and Germany and others though.
…with global parts and materials.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m hoping Arc survives all this?
I know they want to focus, but no one’s going to want their future SoCs if the GPU part sucks or is nonexistent. Battlemage is good!
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That team is hiring.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good!
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Considering how badly Nvidia’s been pricing their dGPUs, the market’s ripe for a low cost alternative to fill a niche for years to come.
dissipatersshik@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
‘Competitors’ just use nvidia’s price gouging as an excuse to charge more themselves.
errer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure which chipmakers survive a 245% tariff…
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does Intel make its main CPUs in China?
Looked it up and found this info at least:
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
My friend is on one of the teams working on that so I suppose I’ll know soon enough if they’re gutting that portion. So far he hasn’t said anything, so here’s hoping they’re safe!